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Using Web Addresses to Stay Safe

or, 'my name is URL'

A Uniform Resource Locator – better known as a URL – may sound like a complicated thing. But fret not – it’s simply the web address that you type into your browser to get to a particular web page or web application.

When you enter a URL, the website is fetched from its hosting server somewhere in the world, transported over miles of cables to your local Internet connection and finally displayed by the browser on your computer.